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Please cite as: Chemboli, S. & Boughton, C. (2011). Contextual Course Design with Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning. In G. Williams, N. Brown, M. Pittard, B. Cleland (Eds.) Changing Demands, Changing Directions. Proceedings ascilite Hobart 2011. (pp.210-219).
In this paper, we present a novel approach to contextualize course design by the application of the Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning (OAR) framework to map the goals and intent of a course to its design and delivery. Effective design and delivery of courses requires alignment between planned learning activities and learning outcomes. However, it is generally not trivial to translate learning outcomes into course design, particularly so when using a Learning Management System (LMS). This is further compounded by the differences between the language of teaching theory and that used by the LMS. Thus, there is a need to effectively capture the rationale for design decisions in a course and map them to desired outcomes. We illustrate the application of the OAR framework with a process for translating a learning objective into course design using the Moodle LMS.
Keywords: Context, Course Design, Moodle, Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning
Teaching a course requires planning learning outcomes and goals. These are then mapped to existing educational technologies to deliver the course. However, current learning management technologies often require significant effort to design and organize courses. As a result, teachers are forced to concentrate their efforts on the quirks and methods of the underlying technological platform and this takes their focus away from the goals and outcomes of the course. The activities of online assessment and evaluation tend to become more of a chore, rather than means to support the goals and objectives of a course. This also makes it difficult to share ideas and educational objects across courses and adapt them in a reusable manner.
These difficulties can be overcome by adopting a process that will enable us to:
- Formalize the implicit rationale in learning outcomes for a course and program of study.
- Better manage the intellectual effort (underlying concepts, ideas and theories) in the design and implementation of a course.
- Explicitly capture and manage the learning context associated with the effort.
To this end, we utilize Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning (Chemboli 2010b) to develop a reusable specification (recipe) in order to enable flexible organization and management of courses using a learning management system such as Moodle. First, learning objectives and outcomes of a course are captured using an enhanced model of curriculum design. These concept level concerns are then expressed as model level concerns in terms of existing educational models in the form of a specification, which conforms to and is in terms of the concept level concerns. Finally, the design decisions of a course are implemented using a learning management system and associated educational technologies, enabling a two way mapping between the educational goals and resources in the underlying technological platform. This will not only enable teachers to map their course outcomes to the underlying educational technology, but will also facilitate evaluation of the effectiveness and suitability of various teaching goals and outcomes.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In the following section we discuss the issues encountered in translating learning outcomes to course design, especially when using a Learning Management System (LMS) for course delivery. Next, we present an overview of the Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning framework, highlighting its main features and approach to concern and context refinement. This is followed by a discussion of the OAR process for contextualizing course design. We illustrate the application of the OAR framework with a process for translating learning outcomes into course design using the Moodle LMS, with particular focus on one learning objective to provide further detail. In the end, we give summary and conclusions and indicate direction of future work.
The Problem of Translating Learning Outcomes to Course Design
The application of Biggs' theory of constructive alignment (Biggs 2003) to design course content results in an effective approach to course delivery. Constructive alignment requires that the teacher align the planned learning activities with the learning outcomes (Houghton 2004). However, one often encounters mismatch and difficulty in mapping the language of the learning outcomes to the resources and processes of the Learning Management System (LMS). This mismatch is mainly because of the different natures of the domains of course design and learning outcomes and the LMS. For instance, while learning objectives for a course may be formulated in terms of the desired goals and means for assessment and evaluation of effective learning, the implementation of the course in an LMS is undertaken in terms of LMS resources such as lessons and exercise blocks, and widgets like buttons and checkboxes, accompanied by participatory student activities such as discussion forums, quizzes and chats. Therefore there is a need to provide a link between the pedagogical concepts and their implementation in an LMS such as Moodle (Rice 2007). Online instruments will further help this linking of Moodle activities and resources to learning outcomes.
Developing Outcomes for a Course
Courses are driven by outcomes and objectives. Developing an effective course requires answering the following questions:
- What are the learning outcomes for the course?
- What is rationale of the learning outcomes?
- What objective measures can be formed to assess student learning?
These learning outcomes are usually expressed as a course description statement.
Difficulty and Disconnect in Mapping Outcomes of Activities / Resources in a Learning Management System
We encounter the following difficulties while translating the intent and learning outcomes of a course into activities and resources in an LMS implementation:
- Resolving the differences between language structure and terminology used in defining learning outcomes and the Moodle implementation.
- There is an apparent disconnect between stating goals of a course and developing a course in Moodle.
- Lack of an effective means to capture the rationale for design decisions in a Moodle implementation (which activity / resource is chosen and why, what are the tradeoffs in using different resources to achieve the same outcome).
- Communication and collaboration issues that emerge in the interaction between course designers, lecturers and LMS developers.
Learning Outcome Rationale
The preliminary process of understanding the rationale for learning outcomes begins with identifying relevant concerns of interest in the course under consideration. We apply the Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning (OAR) framework to analyze the desired learning outcomes against accepted exemplars (external prototypes) presented by Ramsden (1992) and Biggs (2003) as applicable to the context of research-based education (constraint factor) at the ANU (Strazdins 2007). We elaborate the process of linking this analysis in the example discussed later in this paper. This results in capturing the basis for course design in a repeatable manner which can be mapped to the outcomes of the course.
The Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning (OAR) Framework
The OAR framework has been developed to address the problem of capturing and reusing the intellectual effort in scientific workflows (Chemboli 2010b). In this framework, a scientific workflow is defined as any logical and repeatable inquiry, investigation and set of actions.
The main features of OAR are:
- Omnispective: The framework provides an outward looking rich context perspective for analyzing and reasoning about the underlying concerns in a problem situation.
- Epistemic: Provides explicit support for evidential validation in a repeatable manner.
- Managing intellectual effort: Capturing and reusing theories, concepts, interactions and constraints in recipes and prototypes. Exploratory domain concepts, scientific models, representation of theories and process specifications are represented in recipes (prototypes, archetypes and constraints).
Managing Concerns in OAR
In OAR, all the concerns that are identified in the problem domain are collected and managed at three levels – the concept, model and execution levels. Figure 1 illustrates the idea of hierarchical concern management in the OAR framework.
All individual concerns that emerge from an analysis of the domain of the present investigation (Scientific Activity) are extracted as recipes. At the concept level, these include exploratory domain concepts and the interactions and constraints between them. These aspects of the domain are represented in recipes (OAR patterns and prototypes). Each OAR prototype encapsulates the identified knowledge for a concern in the domain to varying degrees of firmness. At the model level, we describe physical and logical systems in terms of formalisms incorporating physical theories and paradigms. These are abstracted in mathematical and analytical models, vocabularies, data sets, natural language representations, ontologies and process guidelines. These abstractions (OAR specifications) are defined explicitly in terms of and conforming to the OAR patterns and recipes which have been identified at the model level. Since the OAR specifications are always defined exclusively in terms of OAR patterns, they will be easy to verify and validate for conformance and well-formedness. Finally, at the execution level the OAR specifications are implemented by automated/manual translation utilizing different available process specifications, system and process frameworks and known implementation platforms while satisfying the requirements of the OAR patterns/recipes which constitute the specification detail. Thus, the hierarchical nature of the OAR framework will ensure an end-to-end coordination between individual concept level concerns, their model representations and the corresponding implementation and execution in terms of available platforms, technologies and frameworks.
Concern Refinement
Depending on the degree of firmness and relevance, we categorize OAR recipes in three types — prototypes, archetypes and constraints. A prototype is any OAR recipe that is available in a given domain without particular consideration of its applicability, degree of formalism or robustness for any fitness or purpose. Thus, a prototype can encapsulate either nascent or well-formed domain concerns that may be available to support the analysis of any problem situation with the OAR framework. An archetype is a prototype that can be considered an exemplar or a best practice recipe for a concern in a particular domain. The choice of an archetype is dependent upon the analysis of the problem under consideration and influences our net understanding of the problem domain. A constraint is a special instance of an archetype which is identified to impose strict criteria on an OAR specification. A valid problem solution is required to sufficiently satisfy all requirements of the constraint without exception, and is often subject to rigid conformance.
Individual concerns (recipes and patterns) in OAR are managed in collections known as a shelf. A shelf is simply an unordered collection of recipes categorized by domains and their relevance to any problem under consideration using the OAR framework. As illustrated in Figure 2, OAR recipes (prototypes, archetypes and concerns) are organized in three categories of shelves — external, problem domain and solution.
Context Refinement
The determination of which recipes are relevant to a problem domain is carried through the process of context refinement. Context specifies the degree of relevance of individual recipes in the problem domain. We manage context in the OAR framework by utilizing an enhanced model of context which extends the foundations proposed by @alshaikh_context_2009. In the OAR framework, we consider context as a function of two dimensions: firmness and influence.
Firmness is a measure of the degree of wellformedness of the recipe (prototype) under consideration in a shelf. If the prototype is ambiguously defined, vague, or peppered with implicit characteristics, the knowledge encapsulated in the prototype can be considered to be quite pliable. On the other hand, an explicitly defined and well-formed prototype can be considered to be firm.
Influence is a measure of the effect exerted by the prototype in the analysis of the problem domain. If a prototype in an external shelf is identified as relevant to the problem domain, then the prototype exerts a non-trivial influence on the analysis. If it exerts a strong influence on the analysis, then the prototype is identified to encapsulate "exemplar criteria" or "best practice" for the problem situation, and can be considered as an archetype in the problem domain. If the prototype does not affect the problem domain, but may still be considered relevant, it is identified as exerting weak influence.
Considering these two dimensions, OAR recipe context (C) is defined as a function of influence (I) and firmness (F) (illustrated in Figure 3) as C = f(I, F).
At the outset, all recipes are assumed non-contextual and not relevant to the problem under study. If analysis suggests the use of a particular recipe, then it becomes contextually relevant for the problem. In addition, if the recipe falls under the category of an "exemplar" or "best practice" in the discipline, then it becomes both relevant and contextually explicit for the problem under consideration. Consequently, the specification composed from the selected recipes will become increasingly firm as situational and imposed constraints are satisfied. Though OAR recipe context is a continuous function of two dimensions, in most circumstances, recipe context can be conveniently tagged by discrete labels of the function f(I, F) affecting prototype selection:
- C(I=0,F=0): a context state corresponding to weak influence and low firmness.
- C(I=0,F=1): a context state corresponding to weak influence and high firmness.
- C(I=1,F=0): a context state corresponding to strong influence and low firmness.
- C(I=1,F=1): a context state corresponding to strong influence and high firmness.
The process of context refinement (Figure 4) is used to determine the relevance and influence of the recipes to a problem domain.
The first two steps of context refinement in Figure 4 may be carried out recursively to obtain a complete mapping of the context relationship in the final specification.
The OAR Process for Contextualizing Course Design
In this section, we demonstrate the application of Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning for developing a contextual specification of course design. First, learning objectives and outcomes of a course are captured using an enhanced model of curriculum design. These concept level concerns are then expressed as model level concerns in terms of existing educational models in the form of a specification. Finally, the design decisions of a course are implemented using a learning management system and associated educational technologies, enabling a two way mapping between the educational goals and resources in the underlying technological platform.
After identifying the learning outcomes for the course, we execute the following steps:
- Choose an outcome for the course.
- Identify the characteristics of the outcome.
- Using an online instrument (Chemboli, Kane, and Johns-Boast 2010) to identify the Moodle resource/activity or associated technology which supports the development of these characteristics.
- Develop the Moodle activity/resource to satisfy the outcome.
Translating Learning Outcomes for COMP8120
COMP8120 was a mandatory course in the Master of Software Engineering Program at The Australian National University. The Master of Software Engineering was aimed at updating and equipping software and systems engineering professionals with a repertoire of best practices and paradigms, empowering them to make informed decisions and evaluate their impact in a measured and systematic manner.
Learning Objectives for COMP8120
- [LO-1] The students will develop an appreciation of past, contemporary and emerging software/systems analysis and design techniques.
- [LO-2] The students will be able to evaluate and understand the scope, applicability, limitations and extensibility of software/systems analysis and design techniques.
- [LO-3] They will be able to apply and expand the methodologies to accommodate appropriate multidisciplinary knowledge, and inform decisions affecting problem situations.
- [LO-4] Students will use the approaches learnt to identify necessary improvements and inform 4. recommendations about their realization using appropriate and well-informed inputs from multiple sources of knowledge and expertise.
- [LO-5] The students will reflect, inform and communicate the issues in the integration approach identified for improving a problem situation to the satisfaction of all stakeholders identified.
Analyzing Context for [LO-1] and [LO-2]
It is assumed by the designers of the course that students may not be conversant with system/software development methodologies (ssdm), or their application to specific problem situations (ps). We express this in the following context statement:
student C(I=0, F=0) ssdm C(I=0, F=0) ps
Students are introduced to subject matter pertaining to the detail and process of various methodologies, without concern for specific usage scenarios. Following this activity, students will now possess the requisite knowledge of system/software development methodologies even if they may still not be aware of areas of application of specific methodologies. Thus, students will acquire explicit knowledge of methodologies, although they may still be unable to contextually apply them to targeted problem situations. This can be expressed as:
student C(I=0, F=1) ssdm
Analyzing Context for [LO-3]
The students participate in guided learning exercises concerning the development of understanding and evaluation of problem situations while developing informed recommendations without particular emphasis on solution strategies. This phase of learning is governed by efforts to credit local knowledge.
student C(I=1, F=0) ps C(I=0, F=1) ssdm
Analyzing Context for [LO-4]
The students now undertake activities to iterate through constraints that bear upon a particular problem situation and formulate and develop implementation processes in accordance with all identified aspects of the problem domain. An early design decision by the course organizers required that the students employ the Aspect-Oriented Thinking (AOT) framework (Flint 2006) for this purpose. Consequently, the choice of the AOT framework is a firm constraint (no alternatives are considered).
student C(I=1, F=1) ssdm C(I=1, F=1) ps C(I=1, F=1) AOT
Analyzing Context for [LO-5]
The students are to undertake activities to effectively communicate and collaborate in order to actively arrive at an agreement on the identified intervention in a problem situation.
student C(I=0, F=1) communication and collaboration
Solution Specification for [LO-5]
As a further illustration, we now discuss the OAR process for formulating a solution specification for implementing communication and collaboration for [LO-5] using the Moodle LMS (Chemboli 2010a). Although the process for defining solution specifications for the other learning objectives is not presented here, they are defined in a similar manner.
Initialize External Shelves
We identify the following external shelves (Figure 5) with prototypes for designing the specification for realizing [LO-5].
We utilize Bloom's taxonomy in order to align the learning outcomes of COMP8120 with assessment criteria. Hence, we identify the prototypes for assessment modes in Bloom's taxonomy as relevant recipes for consideration. The Outcomes external shelf presents us recipes for the activities pertinent to [LO-5]. Written or verbal communication between students can either be synchronous (in real-time) or asynchronous. These recipes are collected in the Communication external shelf. Since, we intend to implement [LO-5] using the Moodle LMS, an external shelf with resources and activities supporting communication and collaboration in Moodle is considered.
At the time of designing this course, we used Bloom's taxonomy (Bloom 1963). There is nothing inherent in the OAR framework which mandates the kind of taxonomy used. The revised Bloom's taxonomy (Churches 2008) can be incorporated in a straightforward manner as another external shelf which provides additional prototypes for consideration in the solution specification.
Identify Relevant Archetypes and Constraints
Next, we perform concern refinement for [LO-5] in order to select the specific prototypes which can be imported into the problem domain shelf. [LO-5] states the requirement for active communication and collaboration. The recipes for Communication and Collaboration are selected from the Outcomes external shelf. We also identify two constraint recipes — Synchronous and Written from the Communication external shelf. The students are required to communicate and collaborate in a synchronous fashion using written tools (these constraints are imposed by the course designers). Utilizing Bloom's taxonomy, we can align [LO-5] with assessment of Application skill. The students are required to utilize the communication platform to execute stakeholder engagement. Finally, we also select the prototypes for the activities in Moodle which support communication in a written form. The resultant problem domain shelf is illustrated in Figure 6.
Solution Specification for [LO-5]
We now undertake the process of Context Refinement to define the solution specification for [LO-5] (Figure 7). The process is outlined in the following specification statements.
The process is outlined in the following specification statements.
[SS-1] The Communication archetype needs to be implemented in a Synchronous and Written fashion.
Synchronous C(I=1, F=1) Communication C(I=1, F=1) Written
[SS-2] Although the Dialog Tool, Discussion Forum and Message Tool can be used for synchronous communication, they are not particularly suited for interactive text exchange between participants. Therefore, only the Chat Tool satisfies the requirement of synchronous communication, and is imported in the solution shelf.
Synchronous C(I=1, F=0) Chat Tool
[SS-3] The Chat Tool was selected because it is a writing tool.
Written C(I=0, F=1) Chat Tool
[SS-4] The use of the Chat Tool will satisfy the requirement for assessing how the students apply the skills learnt via [LO-5] because the course coordinators can assess the chat logs for significant contributions. Thus, we can state this as:
Chat Tool C(I=0, F=1) Application.
Implement Solution Specification
Finally, we implement the solution specification for setting up a chat tool for satisfying [LO-5]. This is achieved through either manual or automated translation using the information provided by the archetype for the chat tool. In this case, we utilize a Moodle workflow for setting up the chat activity in the LMS (Chemboli 2010c), which is specified in the chat tool recipe that was imported from the Moodle external shelf during the process of concern refinement. The use of the chat tool satisfies the design requirement for [LO-5] (synchronous and written communication) which is specified in Figure 7.
Summary and Conclusions
In this paper, we have presented the application of the Omnispective Analysis and Reasoning (OAR) framework to contextualize course design by mapping the goals and intent of a course to its development and delivery. This is a novel approach and we expect this will support the development of courses which robustly satisfy their learning outcomes. We align the learning outcomes of a course with activities related to teaching and assessment by explicitly capturing the context of course design using an enhanced context paradigm. We have illustrated this process by the example of a specification to satisfy a learning outcome for synchronous and written collaboration between students in a software engineering course using the Moodle LMS. We expect that adding support for capturing and incorporating context and rationale using the OAR framework will greatly aid the process of course design. Though we have not explicitly addressed the idiosyncrasies of learners and instructors in the example presented, these can be incorporated by adding prototypes from relevant external shelves. As a further extension to the work presented in this paper, we are currently developing a "Context Plugin for Moodle". This is an OAR workflow plugin to capture and represent the intellectual effort in course design and manage its context within the Moodle LMS itself.
This work is based on initial research supported by the Australian National University, and the Commonwealth of Australia, through the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology. Support from the Research Student Development Centre, the CECS Educational Development Group and the Division of Information at the ANU is gratefully acknowledged.
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Across central Oklahoma, where multiple twisters were seen, homes were blown apart and off their foundations with some of the worst damage seen in the Twin Lakes area just outside Wellston, according to KFOR. Power lines were downed and trees uprooted.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency in 16 counties.
St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital in Shawnee, Okla., treated 11 patients, hospital information officer Carla Tollett said. One victim was in critical condition, she said; the remaining 10 were to be treated for minor injuries and released.
Oklahoma's Department of Emergency Management confirmed four injuries in Lincoln County, but no fatalities. Officials were still surveying damage in many areas. Damaged buildings were confirmed in Edmond, Norman, Lincoln County and Pottawatomie County, which declared a state of emergency.
KFOR in Oklahoma reports that there is damage after an apparent tornado hit the ground near Shawnee, Okla., on Sunday.
Residents in downtown Wichita, Kan., were told to seek shelter Sunday afternoon after a tornado was confirmed on the ground – with its presence cloaked by thick thunder clouds and heavy rain.
The National Weather Service in Wichita warned of a large and "extremely dangerous and potentially deadly" tornado late Sunday. Weather spotters confirmed the tornado 7 miles northwest of Haysville and moving northeast at 30 mph, the Weather Service said.
The tornado later passed south of the city in Sedgwick County in southern Kansas, but rain and thunderstorms continued to batter the area, NBC station KSN-TV in Wichita reported.
Travis Heying / MCT via Zuma Press
A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita near the town of Viola on Sunday.
The warning, which covered downtown Wichita as well as the surrounding area that includes Haysville, was lifted in early evening, KSN reported.
Power lines were down and at least three homes were damaged near Wichita, one with its roof blown off, KSN reported. Authorities said there were no injuries to report.
Other tornadoes were confirmed near Udall and Emporia, and danger remained in many parts of southcentral Kansas with residents told to seek refuge in storm shelters.
At least one massive tornado was confirmed on the ground near Oklahoma City, KFOR reported. The Weather Service reported that that twister was seen by spotters near Luther and was moving east at 30 mph.
The Lincoln County sheriff's office reported damage from three tornadoes that touched down, but the extent of the damage was not immediately known.
The Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., is forecasting tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds over parts of the central Plains into the week.
Some of the largest cities in the Midwest are under alert in what could be a long night for the country's heartland, The Weather Channel's Kelly Cass reports.
Low pressure in the Plains states will keep things "very unsettled and stormy" as the week goes on, The Weather Channel reported.
On Monday, the severe storms threat moves down to North Texas and Oklahoma, through northwest Arkansas, southeast Kansas and Missouri into parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, according to the Weather Channel. Large hail and damaging winds are possible.
By Tuesday the large system is expected to be moving slowly to the east, from eastern Texas to the southern Great Lakes.
The storms are being generated by a dip in the jet stream combined with moisture moving north from the Gulf of Mexico, Kim Cunningham of The Weather Channel reported on NBC Nightly News.
The danger follows a series of tornadoes that struck northern Texas on Wednesday night, leaving six people dead and dozens injured. One of the twisters was preliminarily classified EF-4 by the National Weather Service, meaning it could have had winds up to 200 miles per hour.
Overall, tornadic activity has been slow this May, typically a bad month for twisters, said the Weather Channel's Tom Moore.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Authorities are telling people from Iowa to Oklahoma to prepare for powerful storms. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.


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Hello, friends! I've really been behind on the blogging front, haven't I? Truth be told, I've been in a bit of a rut when it comes to matters of blogging and sharing on the internet. Since I create recipes for a living and spend a lot of time in the kitchen during my work day, I tend to gravitate to simple cooking at home. When work gets busy (aka I'm doing a lot of cooking) I don't really care to spend a long time in the kitchen cooking yet another meal. Instead, I throw together easy dishes that aren't exactly blog-worthy. Unless you want to see endless yogurt bowls and large salads made up of whatever is found in my fridge.
Our garden has been growing like crazy! Well, our tomatoes, zucchini and basil have been growing like crazy. In fact, our zucchini is taking over our garden at an alarmingly rapid pace.
Since we have so much basil, I figured it was high time to make pesto. During the winter months I crave pesto like crazy, but since basil is pricey in the winter, I try to take advantage of pesto during the warmer months when its incredibly cheap to make. Especially when you grow your own herbs.
Joe is semi-allergic to walnuts so I kept this pesto super simple with just basil, Asiago cheese, plenty of lemon juice and a little salt. It made an amazing addition to a bowl of whole wheat pasta and would be a great dressing for grilled veggies or a grain salad.
Asiago Basil Pesto
*3 cups packed fresh basil leaves
*1/2 cup shredded Asiago cheese
*1/3 cup olive oil
*Juice from 1/2 a lemon
*Pinch of salt (optional)
*Place all the above ingredients together in a food processor and blend until smooth, about 2 to 3 minutes. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.
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Blatant conflict of interest would at least bring 'transparency' to the president who cloaks himself in class warfare rhetoric while serving bankster agenda
Aaron Dykes
November 24, 2012
President Obama is officially considering corporate sponsors to back his second inaugural ceremony, citing worries that his base of donors are tapped out after floating upwards of $1 billion for his re-election — and pondering openly, officially, accepting cash from the most notorious 1% of the 1% in order to pay for the extravagant inaugural pageant that will follow the private swearing in ceremony for a president they have always controlled.
The team of backers will, no doubt, be heavily represented on Wall Street, and in particular in the close-knit circles who reaped mad cash on bailout giveaways, who have bought out the important positions in the cabinet, and who pretend to advice Obama on creating jobs while shipping them overseas, or downsizing them altogether amidst the economic storm.
The blatant conflict of interest would at least bring more transparency to the banker owned & operated president, who otherwise cloaks himself in class warfare rhetoric to appeal to the masses who voted for him, while in reality actually serving the very bankster interests he attacks in words, and words alone.
The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, would thus make clear to anyone paying attention the virtual corporate ownership of the Office of the President that has continued through several heads of state.
In 2009, Obama publicly denounced corporate backing for his first inauguration, in attempt to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, despite the fact that Wall Street's biggest welfare recipients heavily backed his bid for the Oval Office as well as the inauguration celebration itself.
According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, top executives from Wachovia, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers bundled at least $700,000 in contributions for inauguration events following Obama's first election.
Craig Holman, of Public Citizen, commented that Obama's readiness to take on corporate money for this event would "essentially codify this idea that corporations should be financing politics."
Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both took corporate money for their inaugurations, with a documented $42 million floating Bush's 2005 ceremonies and festivities, and some $100 million for Clinton's second term inaugural in 1997, according to the Wall Street Journal.
As Infowars.com thoroughly documented in The Obama Deception, released at the start of Obama's first term, the president is heavily influenced and bought out not only by top Wall Street banking interests but by globalist policy wonks hell bent on undermining the United States and its Constitution.
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How research applications lead to outcomes
Successful applications selected for funding by the ASRP include research proposals which outline:
- Aims of the investigation
- Methods that will be used
- Hypotheses-Research Questions- i.e. population(s) studied, comparison group(s), intervention(s), outcomes(s)
Once funding commences, investigators carry out their research using the approved research design proposed in their applications, which generally involve the following:
Every 12 months a progress report is required of the grant/award recipient affirming the aims and methods are the same in the investigation and providing an update on results attained to date. As per ASRP Application Guidelines, in the event that this report is not provided, funding may be revoked.
Within six months following the end of the grant/award, investigators are to submit a final report to the Alzheimer Society, outlining the final results of their investigation. Any papers submitted for publication, in press or published in peer-reviewed journals, which result from this funding, are to be provided at this time.
All ASRP grant and award recipients must produce a Knowledge Dissemination method/tool as a way of sharing the results of their research with the public, in a way that is useful and easily understood. Examples include webinars, booklets, tools, workshops, and educational sessions with patients, practitioners or stakeholders that are to be completed and sent to the ASRP along with the final report. Also required are any research questions posed by the target audience in hope of informing future investigations.


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The January 26 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times has an interesting article by Stephanie Simon titled "What chores would Jesus do?" It describes a small commune of evangelical Christians in Billings, Montana, and their efforts to live the Gospel more fully.
The group started out with two married couples, a single man, and a total of five children. They shared a two-bedroom house in a very average suburban neighborhood (the single guy slept in the basement). The community still exists after a year, though with some changes in personnel.
This group is part of the so-called New Monasticism, itself an outgrowth of the Emergent evangelical movement. Useful references to the New Monasticism can be found here and here.
For well over thirty years now I've been interested in alternative communities and monasticism, and manage to practice a form of the latter within the limits of my married, householding lifestyle. What are my reactions to this article?
- For starters, the community has no rule of life. A rule sounds restrictive at first blush, but it sets out what members owe to the community in terms of commitments of money, labor, and time. It also specifies what the members can expect from the community. Christian monasticism has a 1700-year track record in large part because it has rules (preeminently the Rule of Benedict in the West) and adheres to them consistently. Rural America is littered with the ruins of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of communes that tanked because everyone was too busy getting enlightened to take out the garbage.
- Aside from group Bible studies, there is apparently no formal public worship and no emphasis on other spiritual practices (I'd think that lectio divina would be a natural for evangelicals. But have these folks even heard of lectio divina?
These folks could learn a few lessons from the Old Monasticism without compromising either their evangelicalism or their status as laypeople. If you insist on reinventing the wheel, you must be prepared for a wobbly ride.


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What makes a good leader? It's a tough question with many answers. As Kathleen Brush, corporate turnaround executive and author of The Power of One, says: "The biggest challenge to being an effective leader is understanding that employees aren't the problem. If there are problems in your organization, it's not the employees; it's you."
When Stephanie Bogan, senior vice president of client experience and training at United Capital, owned a financial services consulting firm, she would frequently experience what she now calls "control seizures." Was she a nitpicker? Yes. A micromanager? Absolutely.
"People can change. I used to be the shining example of how not to do it. Leaders must realize that their job is to envision and not, always, to execute," says Bogan. "You need to look at yourself as the Chief Leadership Officer as opposed to the CEO, or Chief Everything Officer. A true chief executive is a leader—someone who can envision a future that doesn't exist and influence people to go with them there."
Former White House advisor and economist Todd Buchholz says leadership requires a mission, a belief and clarity. "Those are characteristics where CEOs easily stumble. There are many folks who hold leadership positions but have no idea where they want to take their organizations. It's been sad to see Michael Dell and Dell Computer stumble for years now," adds Buchholz, author of Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office and other books. "What's your mission? What are you trying to do? If you can't communicate that—if you can't get it out of your mouth—it's another way you can easily fail. The good news is that these things can be taught."
How do you lead your employees, your clients, your life? Do you want to do a better job of it? Here are tips from top experts:
Hone your predictive intelligence
Leadership can be summed up in one word: prediction. As Matthew Cross, president and chief strategist of the Stamford, Conn.-based Leadership Alliance, frames it, "Leaders on the whole make predictions about future outcomes that come true more often than not. That's why Warren Buffett is so renowned. He makes a lot of calls or predictions that come true more often than not. That's why we talk about Warren."
Cross says advisors can strengthen their predictive intelligence by taking a step back from their everyday business and surveying their complete ecosystem. "Most advisors, rookies and seasoned vets, don't take that step back," he says. "Yet our life is one big system. We need to create a series of steps or processes that lead to a clear, desired aim. You can't manage just one piece of it and expect the whole to get better."
Advisors, according to Cross, should ask themselves: What is my vision for my practice and my life? How do I make better choices every day? How can I make sure I'm working on the right things in the right order? How can I have a better day tomorrow? Cross says it's also important to fully understand "core-driving" values like family, health, integrity and respect.
"You need to be contemplative, mindful and occasionally strategic. Am I hitting on all core drivers or am I just randomly going forward hoping to hit the big time? I suggest that everyone is a leader," he says. "Anyone at any age can activate their natural talents for leadership. We simply have to step back and start asking better questions."
Be a servant leader
There are different types of leadership styles but in the service-based advisory business, the successful chief executive tends to be a servant leader, according to consultant Angie Herbers, who heads Angie Herbers Inc. in Manhattan, Kan.
"Do you believe your employees and clients are there to serve you or are you here to serve them? When you become a servant leader, your whole view on what your business is changes," she says.
One case in point: An advisor Herbers works with complained incessantly about an employee who arrived at work late and left early even though the employee was getting his job done. The employee eventually left and Herbers hired his replacement. Three days into the new hire's tenure, the advisor called Herbers and demanded that he be fired because he didn't know, among other things, how to use a certain software program.
"We're not firing him," Herbers told him. "He moved here for you and he has the one quality you love: He's trying really hard. He's coming in early, staying late, working weekends. Isn't that what you always wanted?" In that moment, Herbers says, the advisor got it. "I see what I'm here to do now," the advisor said. "I'm here to serve this guy and train him." Six months later, the advisor's new hire is what he considers to be a model employee.
Bosses often create conflict through poor communication, according to Brush. "Companies are complex social systems and leading is a people business. When an employee is all frowny-faced, the response shouldn't be 'What's your problem?'; it should be 'What's my problem?' This is a problem that's so easily solved. Simply go over to that employee and ask if he's doing okay," she says. "The response usually is: Oh my gosh, the boss cares."
Effective leaders, she adds, routinely ask themselves: What do I need to communicate to my employees today?
"You need to recognize that it all starts and ends with you. You cannot outsource leadership," says Brush. "Most bosses, I don't know why, seem to think employees are mind readers or mushrooms who grow well in the dark. The importance of communication cannot be overstated."
Inspire, don't require
In her work with advisors, Bogan has identified two types of leaders—those who inspire performance and achievement and those who require it.
"The really successful firms inspire," she says. "The reality is when you envision a future that doesn't yet exist, you are on the inspire side of the equation. When the leader is very task-focused, you're on the require side."
An advisor Bogan once worked with was so attached to his clients that he took every phone call that came his way. In the process, he was disenfranchising the people who worked for him by not allowing them to do their jobs. Bogan's fix: The advisor's phone was temporarily removed from his desk.
"Leadership is always about possibility or paranoia. People who inspire tend to believe in possibility. People who require tend to be paranoid about everything. That's a very limiting belief system. In this case, the advisor felt if he wasn't accessible to his clients, something horrible would happen. What he learned is that he wasn't necessary to make the day to day happen. Running the shop doesn't require leadership, it requires management. Managing is running the shop. Leadership is defining the future."
Focus on being, not doing
Leadership is a 24-hour-a-day job and that makes it not so much about "doing" but "being," according to Joni Youngwirth, managing principal of practice management at Commonwealth Financial Network.
While it is critically important for advisory firm owners to establish a business plan, vision, goals and strategic identity, Youngwirth says that acting as a role model is a key component that's often overlooked.
"Who are they being day to day as they drive that language into action and what are they role modeling for everyone who comes in touch with them? This is about being a leader of my life," she notes. "Leadership is really about other people. It reminds me of a leadership course I once took where, I wondered, can we really take leadership or are you given leadership by others? I think you can't take it. People see in you how you are, how you behave, and you are given leadership by them."


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Latest Neurology News
THURSDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Lighting up a cigarette and having a few cocktails often go hand in hand, but according to a new study, this common combination may wreak havoc on a person's mental skills.
Researchers from University College London found combined smoking and heavy drinking was associated with 36 percent faster decline in brain function, and the problem accelerates as the amount of alcohol consumed increases. People who avoid this behavior may help protect their mental skills as they get older, the study authors concluded.
"Current advice is that smokers should stop or cut down, and people should avoid heavy alcohol drinking," the study's lead researcher, Dr. Gareth Hagger-Johnson, said in a university news release. "Our study suggests that people should also be advised not to combine these two unhealthy behaviors -- particularly from midlife onwards. Healthy behaviors in midlife may prevent cognitive [mental] decline into early old age."
The 10-year study involved nearly 6,500 adults aged 45 to 69 years. The participants were asked about their smoking habits as well as the amount of alcohol they consumed. Their brain function -- including verbal and math reasoning, verbal fluency as well as their short-term verbal memory -- was also assessed three times over the course of the study.
The age effect of combined heavy drinking and smoking was the equivalent of 12 years -- two years more than the duration of the study, according to the study findings, which were published in the July 11 online edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
"When we looked at people who were heavy-drinking smokers, we found that for every 10 years that they aged, their brains aged the equivalent of 12 years," Hagger-Johnson explained. "From a public health perspective, the increasing burden associated with cognitive [mental] aging could be reduced if lifestyle factors can be modified, and we believe that people should not drink alcohol more heavily in the belief that alcohol is a protective factor against cognitive decline."
Although the study found an association between smoking/drinking behavior and mental function decline, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
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First donations after Newtown tragedy being spent
NEWTOWN — The first of the money donated through the United Way after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is being spent in part to meet the immediate needs of first responders, teachers and others who lost wages and may have exhausted their benefits.
The United Way of Western Connecticut said Friday that it's set up a $200,000 fund, which also is being used for youth programs and for mental health services for those affected by the shooting that left 20 students and six adults dead.
Kim Morgan, chief executive officer of the United Way of Western Connecticut, said most of that money will be released in the next week.
"The only thing that we did commit to already was two-way radios for the teachers in the school," she said. "They wanted that to feel secure and be able to communicate to first responders directly. So we committed to help fund that."
The $200,000 is separate from the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, which had a balance of $8.5 million as of Friday morning, Morgan said.
A transition team of community leaders, being advised by former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, met Friday to discuss the establishment of the foundation that will distribute that money. The team includes representatives from the town government, board of education, Newtown Savings Bank and the United Way.
The foundation will be broader based and will not spend any money without first getting input from the victims' families and the Newtown community, said Selectman Will Rodgers, chairman of the transition team.
He said it likely will have committees to deal with specific areas of need, such as a mental health committee, a memorial committee and a scholarship committee.
He said the transition team also envisions the foundation keeping some of the money as an investment base to ensure there are funds available to meet the town's needs years down the road.
"Things such as post-traumatic stress disorders and other needs might not arise for some time," Rodgers said.
Lieberman, who retired this month after 24 years in the U.S. Senate, said he hopes some of his experiences in dealing with families after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will help in guiding the disbursement process.
"Sometimes as the particular occurrence of the tragedy fades away there have been disagreements, quite understandable, in communities about how to react and how to spend money that has come in," he said. "I just hope that I can play a mediating role here in making sure the extraordinary strength and unity of the Newtown community in response to Sandy Hook will be sustained as the community decides how to spend this money and what else to do to respond to the tragedy."
The foundation will reach out and offer to administer funds set up by other groups. Rodgers said the town has compiled a preliminary eight-page list of people who have been raising money but may have no idea how to operate legally as a charity.
He said the foundation would help them with tax liability and other issues, while the original fundraisers would still be in charge of distributing their money.
He said while the $8.5 million in the Sandy Hook School Support Fun won't be spent right away, there is no shortage of other charitable money available right now for those who need it.
"It will be there," Rodgers said. "There is a wealth of money available for short-term needs and long-term needs. The level of specificity is amazing. There are funds for cultural arts, service-dog funds."


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Well. John, Polly and I went over to Dallas this weekend (well Polly took us, I mean, God, the car pretty much drives herself) to see Jim and his teammates play the Cowboys. We had seats nearing the Little Dipper:
I mean honestly, I refused to move because I feared tumbling to my death... (even though I did send John on a run to the concessions stand to bring me the most amazing Frito Pie that I've ever devoured in public. I mean seriously, it was off the charts of goodness.) They tried to do this deal with 3-D glasses on that gigantic screen up there. Didn't go over so well, though since you couldn't watch the game with the glasses or the screen without the glasses, so mainly it was a huge cluster-f so nonetheless the crowd cheered the loudest when they turned that bullcrap off.
We got these wristband deals to go down under the stadium with the players' Escalades and BMWs and whatnot once the game was over. Mostly it was a bunch of groupies loitering and taking photos. I was mesmerized by the Hybrid Benz that I saw... however, That Guy that knocked Tila Tequila out that time walked right past my shoulder. I would say that was the highlight. Then there was the 4 mile walk back to the car... hey, after that Frito Pie, I needed it.
John and I got to visit with Jim's baby:
I held him for nearly an hour and no one died, so maybe I'm getting the hang of baby-holding. Also, he's pretty cute. And he doesn't cry a lot so that's a bonus.
So that was Dallas in a flash. Oh and I got to go to Anthropologie, which I love. Also I got to go to Macy's to see what all the hype is about, what with all the commercials and stuff lately. I got a Christmas present for John's mother and nothing for self. I must be growing up a little bit.... nah.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Awwww Hnap!
Well. John, Polly and I went over to Dallas this weekend (well Polly took us, I mean, God, the car pretty much drives herself) to see Jim and his teammates play the Cowboys. We had seats nearing the Little Dipper:
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Friday, December 11, 2009
This Is Your Big Chance... You Rich Ladies, You
Then this is your chance to be featured in an upcoming episode of the hit reality series "Party Mamas".
We're looking for outgoing moms and/or dads who are planning a fabulous party for their son/daughter. From a Birthday Party to a Stagette, anything Goes- as long as the 'Party Mama' is ready to pull up her sleeves and have an elaborate bash.
Successful candidates will receive fair compensation in addition to a DVD copy of the episode.
Please send your contact info, photo of you and your family, along with a brief description and date of your party to
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I started working last week on a new project called Super.The show stars these actors whose identities will be protected as per the Confidentiality Agreement that I signed:
Today was the first day of Principal Photography and oh my God I almost froze my yams off out there and I'm not joking. When I got back in my car, my legs/feet were numb. Never again. I thought I'd be nice and helpful and go out there to set and kind of spy on the situation for the first day, all along appearing eager, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Also to answer any questions and whatnot. Never again. I'm signing people in and leaving.
So anyway, when I said that I went back to the car and thawed... this is the car that I went back to:
This is Polly and she is my new Prius. (Gladpys was struck back in October by a raging maniacal teenager and totaled, God rest her soul. She was a good car and she would still be kicking it amongst the SB if it weren't for that hair-lipped idiot. Sigh. Not that I don't LOVE Polly. It's just that I don't LOVE that car payment every month. But, she is environmentally friendly and I have also convinced myself that I am now way better than most people, thus tying into the Smug stereotype of fellow Prius-owners.) Hopefully she does me right.
Now, back to casting strippers and chickenhawks...
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Labels: Being Responsible, Celebrity Encounters, Fun Things, Movies, Work
Monday, December 7, 2009
Merry Christmas To Me!
Well, I am planning and have halfway purchased this year's Christmas gift to self. (For the record, last year's was a leather jacket). I am going to SUNDANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the shows that I worked on last year (Skateland) is going to be in the competition this year and well, why not take a trip and go see it there along with thousands of my peers (and Robert Redford for sure)? So, I will be. I'll be accompanied by a few fellow film, yet not film, co-workers on this trip and I am pumped! You ask, "Kate, will you go skiing whilst there?" I hate to burst your bubble but no, I am not a skier. I prefer toddies in a warm lodge than riding the lift back down the mountain, as I have previously been known to do.
Well that is today's news brief. Check back soon for more updates.
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Labels: Being Responsible, Celebrity Encounters, Festivals, Movies, Work
Friday, December 4, 2009
She's BAAAAAACK!!! Maybe...
So, I just left a production meeting where this candid photo of myself and my counterpart was snapped. We were talking and weren't supposed to be and got a 'talking-to' from the director. Oh well. I hope that I left you in so much suspense of where and what I've been doing that you just haven't been able to stand it... or better yet, contain yourselves.
What have you all been doing to keep yourselves busy and distracted from the Cob? Whatever the answers may be, I hope they are shareable. Kisses.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
My Day at the Unopened Fair Zoo
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Labels: Animals, Free Things, Fun Things, Surprises, Work
Monday, October 12, 2009
Not Safe For Work (No Really)
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Labels: Class Acts, Family, Inappopriate Things, John and Kate, Nonstop Laughs, Surprises
Friday, October 9, 2009
Low Moment of My Day
Yeah, so. The low moment of my day yesterday was coming back from running an errand to this refrigerator for me to clean.
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Labels: Crappy Things, Movies, Surprises, Work
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Highlight of My Day
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Labels: Celebrity Encounters, Fun Things, Movies, Work
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Halle It Is
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Labels: Acting My Age, Class Acts, Festivals, Fun Things, Good Eats, mistakes, Movies, Work
Saturday, September 26, 2009
New Poll of The Week!
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Labels: Polls
Things I Do When I Should Be Working
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Labels: Free Things, Fun Things, Movies, Surprises, Work
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Self-Explanatory Blog Title:
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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Just need a long, suede jacket and some gray marled tights. Oh, and a street like this.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Those who have watched the Michael Dunn trial have done so for various reasons.
For one person, it was a self-defense claim that didn't work. For another couple, it's just wanting to know what's going on in their community as they prepare to have a baby.
And as different as those reasons are for watching the trial, so are the things they took away from it.
"Back in 1997 I was a victim of the justice system myself," Randy Drake said.
That's why he said he followed the Dunn trial from the beginning. He spent 12 years in prison after shooting and killing a man he said attacked his mother. His claim of self-defense was denied, so he listened closely as Dunn made the same argument.
"What about just hearing him on the stand say that he was fearful for his life?" Channel 4's Kumasi Aaron asked.
"No he wasn't," Drake said. "'Cause anybody -- I know for a fact that when you have fear in your heart, in your mind, you would do everything that you possibly can to escape that."
Tracy Rigdon watched the trial because he often visited the gas station where the shooting took place. He said evidence like the store's video surveillance from that night painted a clearer picture of what happened.
But he also watched how attorneys presented that evidence.
"I think the prosecution, with what they had, did alright," Rigdon said. "I don't believe that they presented with as much passion as the defense did. Strolla did quite a job in the defense closing arguments, and I think his passion showed."
For soon-to-be-parents Donald Adams and Leanna Wilkins, it was all about what Dunn said or didn't say on the stand.
"During his testimony, there was no remorse shown whatsoever for the loss of this life," Adams said. "Also, the fact that you can leave and go to your hotel and call the pizza man versus calling the police in this situation."
Wilkins said Dunn's letters written from jail showed a side much different than what he presented in the courtroom.
"It kind of gave the entire case racial overtones that I think were something that needs to be expressed," Wilkins said.
Days of watching testimony and viewing evidence now come down to one decision.
"I look at it as a learning experience for not only the younger generation but for the nation itself," Drake said.


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ERF Wireless to Conduct Shareholder Conference Call August 28, 2014
LEAGUE CITY, TX / ACCESSWIRE / August 22, 2014 / ERF Wireless Inc. (OTCQB: ERFB), a leading provider of enterprise-class wireless and broadband products and services, announced today that the Company will conduct a shareholder conference call on August 28, 2014, at 3:00-4:00 p.m. CST to review with shareholders some of the recent company activities and to answer shareholders' questions that have been submitted prior to the call. Shareholders wishing to submit questions to be addressed during the call may submit them by emailing email@example.com at any time prior to the call; as many of these questions as time permits will be answered by ERF Wireless during the call. The format of the call will be a 20-minute overview of ERF Wireless followed by approximately 40 minutes of answering the previously submitted questions. Shareholders may listen at the time of the call by calling (605) 562-0020 and entering code 1729 followed by the # sign.
About ERF Wireless
ERF Wireless Inc. is a fully reporting public corporation located in League City, Texas, and is the parent company of Energy Broadband Inc., ERF Enterprise Network Services, ERF Bundled Wireless Services, ERF Wireless Messaging Services and ERF Network Services. The company specializes in providing wireless and broadband product and service solutions to enterprise, commercial and residential clients on a regional, national and international basis. Its principals have been in the wireless broadband, network integration, triple-play FTTH, IPTV and content delivery business for more than 40 years. For more information, please visit our websites at www.erfwireless.com, www.energybroadband.com and www.erfwireless.net or call 281-538-2101. (ERFBG)
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By Air Force Staff Sgt. Richard Murphy
185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica, Dec. 3, 2012 – As the cool winter air begins to roll into Sioux City, Iowa, Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) William Vit is feeling a much colder breeze.
"I enjoy the diversity of the people who are here," the chaplain said. "From military to scientists and everything in-between, I am able to meet a wide variety of people."
In addition to serving the population at the McMurdo Station, Vit also serves about 160 people stationed at the geographic South Pole. The most difficult part of this deployment, he said, is dealing with the harsh environment.
"Equipment doesn't always work like it does when everything is warm," he explained. "I tried to take pictures with my digital camera at the South Pole, but with wind chills of 50 below zero, the electronics don't even work. At the South Pole, when we finally found a well-insulated camera that functioned in the cold, it was still hard to take the picture, as the flash button is not designed to accommodate a shivering person with two layers of gloves."
While coping with the extreme temperatures, Vit said, he enjoys working with researchers and has found a common interest: the desire to seek the truth. "While our fields of study may be vastly different, our desires and motivations are strikingly similar," he said. "As a chaplain, I have enjoyed hearing about all of this work and sharing my appreciation for their research and mission."
Vit said he is moved by the support he received at home concerning his deployment. "I spoke with members from my local church to make sure I could be away for the given time," he said, "and was actually encouraged by them to participate."
Air Force Chaplain (Maj.) Steven Peters, the full-time Chaplain with the 185th, said Vit's dedication to the Air National Guard and its mission is impressive, especially considering his responsibilities with his parish.
"Chaplain Vit is incredibly busy with his position in his parish. Yet, he feels called to military chaplaincy, and he has made serving the Air National Guard his priority," he said. "Whenever he takes something on, he does it with passion and goes above and beyond what is expected."
Vit will return from this deployment in the coming weeks and another chaplain will deploy to replace him. "As the new priest takes my place, we are fortunate that he can begin where I end and serve the Lord's people living and working here in Antarctica," Vit said.


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What is the property market currently like in considering the CV-19 situation and what are the thoughts regarding how will it affected after CV-19 is (hopefully) ended?
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Springfield, Missouri is home to a vibrant artistic community. This exhibition highlights and celebrates the creativity of our community focusing on artists living and working in the many neighborhoods that make up our city. This exhibition not only concentrates on the artists on display but also their neighborhoods and what it means to live and work creatively in Springfield.
The exhibit will rotate every six months; the fourth and final exhibition features work by 11 artists from seven neighborhoods located in City Council Zone 4 and will run through October 20, 2019.
May 26, 2019, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Musgrave Wing Galleries
The Springfield Art Museum's permanent collection contains over 10,000 objects in nearly all media. The works selected for this exhibition were chosen for their ability to reveal the ways in which artists respond to and reveal our cultural identity as Americans. There is no singular or fixed American identity. American art and history is shaped by multiple perspectives, stories, and experiences, and as such, this exhibition aims to present a multiplicity of views within the wider context of historical moments. The exhibition includes 75 works from as wide an array of artistic voices as possible within our current collection, including even more works by women, people of color, Native Americans, and LGBTQ+ communities. This exhibit includes major work by George Caleb Bingham, Asher B. Durand, Jackson Pollock, Wayne Thiebaud, and Alison Saar, among many others.
May 26, 2019, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Weisel and Kelly Galleries
For the last two years, the Museum has partnered with Missouri State University to showcase work by students pursuing their Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies. This year's exhibit serves as the "thesis exhibition" for four
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May 26, 2019, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Eldredge, Spratlen, and Armstrong Galleries
Nick Cave is a multi-disciplinary artist working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. He is well known for the "Soundsuits" series, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body. This exhibition will feature a focused selection of "Soundsuits," pulled from both private collections and the artist, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, as well as an example from the "Tondo series," and the video work "Drive-By." Funding for this exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Missouri Arts Council, a State Agency.


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so i forgot my friend christians birthday. all of my other buddies threw him this massive party and i completely forgot about because as usual im always on the hunt for a 40 plus doll. i told him i would make up for it and i did. he knew my obsession got in the way of many things but he also knew that same obsession would one day land him a good piece of ass to worship. thus i gave him laurie....oh he worshipped her alright. all 47 inches of her ass that is. nuff said.
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E-commerce in India has been experiencing rapid growth over the past few years. It's estimated to be worth $1.6 billion in 2012 (Forrester Trends Report), which is not a huge number by global standards, but is impressive considering the demographics. However, still many Indians shy away from buying stuff online. Trusting retailers who are probably located several thousand kilometres away to deliver goods that one hasn't checked first-hand is a scary proposition for many Indians.
Google is trying to break the shackles and initiate more Indians to online shopping by leveraging its brand name and deep pockets. The online giant is organizing a "Great Online Shopping Festival" on Dec 12. It has roped in most of the biggies in the Indian e-commerce space, including Flipkart, Myntra, Snapdeal, Pepperfry, and Jabong. Google has also partnered with classifieds, matrimonial services, job portals, and real estate agencies. You can avail attractive discount on premium memberships for services like Bharat Matrimony and Monster.com.
In addition to leveraging its online assets and getting the buzz going on social media, Google is also campaigning on radio channels. The target is obviously the middle class that has so far stayed away from e-commerce. It has even prepared a handy collection of tips for new shoppers. Unlike in most western countries, winter shopping is not a big deal in India. It will be interesting to see if Google can help change that with its Cyber Monday-esque shopping festival.
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Miss me?
I've missed you!
Unfortunately time is still not on my side, so no super dooper posts from me.
Still, I am squeezing out a little time to remind you of something.
And that, as I described to you in gory detail this time last year, is due in a large part to friends and medical practitioners with a good awareness of depression, the effects on an individual, and the wide ranging effects on the individual's family and broader community.
I'm excited to be alive and once again participating in Movember, and invite you to share in the excitement of knowing you are making a difference by raising awareness of depression and prostate cancer.
I know I wont have time to do this justice this year, so I wont be posting about it again, but please read through last years posts.
Just in case you thought I wasn't serious
Depression in the family: Movember
Married with child and depressed: Movember
Depression in the workplace: Movember
Talking about it saves lives: Movember
Aware People are Supportive People: Movember
I will briefly mention my ex-wife, who has been through a very difficult year this year dealing with mental illness. Intially battling to stay alive, then months of therapy and courses to help her develop coping mechanisms and redirect the behaviors that have prevented her from living what many people would consider a normal life, one where the thought of suicide never enters their thoughts. It has been a tough year for all around her, but we are hanging in, as is she.
One of the greatest challenges has been educating her mother about what mental illness is, why it isn't cured overnight, why it isn't her fault, why the abuse directed at her is a cry for help rather than true abuse. Of course, I am fortunate that I live in a society that can, more and more, talk openly about mental illness, that can make adjustments to enable people to heal and become fully functioning, whereas my mother-in-law comes from a culture where mental illness "doesn't exist" and certainly never happens to a loved one.
Bringing the conversation about mental illness into public arena is one of the greatest strengths of Movember. Just as a pink ribbon, or pink bottle top is a great way of raising awareness of breast cancer, growing a Mo is a great way of raising awareness and letting all around you know that you are aware and care about issues affecting men's health – and you don't even need to say a word.
Everyone can contribute in some way.
- Donate
- Grow a Mo
- Grow a Mo and join the Movember celebration
- Get your workplace, club, class, whatever, to join in and grow Mo's
- Encourage your partner to grow a Mo
- Discourage your partner from waxing their Mo
- Compliment someone on a Mo today
- Come join my MovemberTeam!
Remember, this isn't just an Australian event, it is worldwide… Even ForThePie is joining in this year in Movember U.S.A.! Of course there is Movember U.K as well.. go look… get the look… the Movember look!
Mo'mer and Out!
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